September 29, 2009
Traveldudes.org
SU - Paris, the most popular tourist destination in the world | Traveldudes.org: "In Sardinia the Bed and braeakfast 'I GERANI' from 50 euro to the day to couple offers comfortable rooms with pernottamento and breakfast in villa with garden to 2 km from the sea of Posada Nu."
June 12, 2008
Lets Get Stupid!
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
[Atlantic July 2007]
More thoughtful presentations of this class of problem are available. Brain Rules, for example. Naturally, Brain Rules makes use of extensive text, a DVD, and You Tube video. For those who make use of it, the net allows a much more human interaction than linear text. Words, music, video, photos. Best, the level of formality has dropped. Not so good for the elite, but fine for the rest of us.
More soon on this topic!
[Atlantic July 2007]
Maybe I’m just a worrywart. Just as there’s a tendency to glorify technological progress, there’s a countertendency to expect the worst of every new tool or machine. In Plato’s Phaedrus, Socrates bemoaned the development of writing. He feared that, as people came to rely on the written word as a substitute for the knowledge they used to carry inside their heads, they would, in the words of one of the dialogue’s characters, “cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful.”I have little choice. If Carr says he is getting stupid, forgetting how to read etc., I need to take him at his word. Carr's understanding of Turing, AI, and measurement reflect the habits of someone who browses too quickly and misses quite a bit.
--Nicholas Carr
More thoughtful presentations of this class of problem are available. Brain Rules, for example. Naturally, Brain Rules makes use of extensive text, a DVD, and You Tube video. For those who make use of it, the net allows a much more human interaction than linear text. Words, music, video, photos. Best, the level of formality has dropped. Not so good for the elite, but fine for the rest of us.
More soon on this topic!
June 08, 2008
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies
O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies: "'ve long been a fan of WordSpy, Paul McFedries' site that features definitions and first use of new words and phrases. It's a great trendspotting tool. The words we use give surprising insight into popular consciousness. Many of them, like junk sleep, silent disco, free-range kid, or Blackberry prayer illustrate new social trends, while others like phantom load or quake lake are terms of art that have entered popular consciousness, and still others, like naked street are like deli.cio.us links to things you've never heard of, but could end up being important or useful."
say something interesting
say something interesting
June 06, 2008
The Weird Sisters - Olivia Judson - Evolution - Opinion - New York Times Blog
"They just keep getting weirder. The “they” I’m referring to are the bdelloid rotifers — small transparent animals that live in damp places such as puddles, or patches of moss. Among evolutionists, these animals have something of a cult following, because they have a lifestyle that is not supposed to exist. As far as anyone can tell, the bdelloid rotifers are ancient asexuals: they appear to have been living entirely without sex for more than 85 million years. And each time we learn more details of their lifestyle, the wackier it becomes."
June 05, 2008
Scientists Changing Theories About Memory : NPR
Scientists Changing Theories About Memory : NPR: "By looking at brain activity during the scans, scientists are concluding that earlier notions of how memory works need to be revised. The old model of memory, says Lehrer, is that the brain was like an immense filing cabinet, where knowledge was stored in a logical order. 'Now, thanks to 'tip of the tongue' research,' says Lehrer, 'they're realizing that it's not like a file cabinet at all but like a very, very messy desk, cluttered with big piles of paper, so when you misplace a word or a name, what you're trying to do is find one piece of paper amid all these billions and billions of piles of paper.'"
Interesting program, but phrases like "...earlier notions of how memory works need to be revised." are both annoying and misleading. Whose 'earlier notion'? How much earlier?
Lehrer's research, interesting as it is, is hardly the first time people noticed that a file cabinet was a poor metaphor for memory.
Interesting program, but phrases like "...earlier notions of how memory works need to be revised." are both annoying and misleading. Whose 'earlier notion'? How much earlier?
Lehrer's research, interesting as it is, is hardly the first time people noticed that a file cabinet was a poor metaphor for memory.
Slow Food in SF Labor Day 2008
Taste delicious food, meet farmers, wander urban gardens, and discover the recipe for a fair and sustainable food system.
June 03, 2008
Connect Visual Studio Tools to Eclipse
Teamprise : Client Suite
Teamprise is a suite of client applications for accessing Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server from outside of the Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Teamprise enables software development teams to use the source control, work item tracking, documents, and reporting features of Team Foundation Server from within the Eclipse IDE, and from other operating systems, including Linux and Mac OS X.
June 02, 2008
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